Tags - Conservation

Helping Black Grouse recovery

HIH Case Study

The Earn-Tay-Almond Grouse Management Group was founded in 2007 with the objective of re-establishing the Perthshire moors as one of the principal areas for red grouse shooting in Scotland, through...

Irish Golden Eagle Reintroduction

HIH Case Study

Remony Estate

Remony Estate is located on the southern shore of Loch Tay in Perthshire and is owned by the Duncan Millar family.  The primary business of the estate is hill-farming, with tourism...

Gordon Castle Estate Fisheries

HIH Case Study

Gordon Castle Estate

There has been salmon fishing on the River Spey at Gordon Castle since fishing began. Once the domain of Dukes and their guests at the Castle alone, the fishing now brings...

Roxburghe Allotments

HIH Case Study

Roxburghe Estate

After the town’s previous allotments had been acquired by a developer in 2006 to build a new supermarket, the local community in Kelso were actively seeking out a new allotment site...

Community, woodland and squirrels

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Sorn Estate

Sorn is a traditional rural estate with in hand and let farming interests, let residential property, renewable energy, sporting, forestry and heritage property.

For many years the estate...

Diversification at Carroglen Farm

HIH Case Study

Carroglen Farm is entwined with the history of the Scottish hill farming, offering visitors an education in farming practices of the past and of the current shepherds and landowners. Carroglen also...

Torwoodlee: A red squirrel haven

HIH Case Study

Torwoodlee is a traditional Borders estate of 3,000 acres. The land there ranges from lower river habitat to heather-covered hill ground up to 1300 feet. The estate's activities including farming...

Woodland Creation Opportunities

HIH Case Study

Swanston is situated within 5 miles of Edinburgh city centre set in the foothills of the Pentlands. The Swanston area dates back from 1200s when the farm was set up and leased out by the estate.

Swan...